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2017 Targets for San Benito

Reaching Everyone

We will reach Everyone in San Benito in 2016! Infrastructure projects will consist of one new and one rehabilitated water system, and we will identify unconnected families and provide them with system extensions or (for very remote families) alternative technologies. Water quality will be improved through training for water committees on sample collection and preventative and corrective actions.

Achieving Forever

Raise sustainability 5% by improving tariff rates for 15 water committees; collaborate with the Plumber Training Institute (INFOCAL) to train and certify plumbers and improve community access to their services; support legal registration of water committees; and promote a municipal ordinance requiring financial reporting to the municipal water and sanitation office by water committees.

Communities With Adequate Water Service

-9%

42%

Behind The Data

2016

Water For People continuously refines our metrics to capture usable data. In 2016, we have sharpened our focus from whether a given community has access to water service to whether there is access for every household in that community. This change puts Water For People at the leading edge of the new Sustainable Development Goal for water (SDG6). However, in establishing a more rigorous baseline for service, it has also lowered our scores in some cases, particularly where the government standard is a piped connection to every home, as in Central America. Specific analysis of monitoring results will be available soon in the sections called Behind the Data, linked to each district page.

2015

Water coverage in San Benito is at 95%, a slight decrease since 2014 but an increase of 51% since 2011. Credit for the larger trend goes to municipal co-financing for water infrastructure; training and incentivizing of water and sanitation committees through centralized workshops; and the use of FLOW data to prioritize the needs among families not yet connected to water systems. Challenges in 2015 included change in municipal leadership and DMSB water and sanitation staff, requiring Water For People to introduce and engage new partners on EF and sustainable practices.

Data has a 5% margin of error

What’s our progress toward building sustainability for water service in San Benito?

Communities With Sustainable Water Service

30%

27%

Behind The Data

Levels of sustainability are currently at 60%, a 22% drop from 2014. A central cause was elections, which brought new municipal leadership and new staff into the office of technical support for water and sanitation (the DMSB). Another weak point was tariffs: though nearly all communities now collect them, current rates are too low to cover long-term operation, maintenance, and repair costs. Finally, only 60% of committees were legally registered in 2015. We will work with committees in 2016 to gain legal status and restructure their tariffs to align more closely with real costs. We will also engage and train the new government to bring them fully into partnership on EF.

Percentage With Adequate & Sustainable Water& Sanitation Services

-3%

25%

Behind The Data

100% of the schools and clinics in San Benito are at an intermediate or high level of service! This is a 28% increase since 2013 and a 12% increase since 2014. Co-finance levels have risen, as have investments in hygiene education, and 2015 included successful programming in two new schools in the district.